Plato: Timaeus and Critias Cognitive Science You may "know" Jenny Slate

You may "know" Jenny Slate from her Netflix special

Determined offers a marvelous synthesis of what we know about consciousness--the tight weave between reason and emotion and between stimulus and response in the moment and over a life

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fall back on false hopes and treatments that are actually shortening lives instead of improving them

What stays with me most is how timely it still feels—questions about dignity

Plato: Timaeus and Critias Cognitive Science You may "know" Jenny Slate'The god wanted everything to be good, marred by as little imperfection as possible.' Timaeus, one of Plato's acknowledged masterpieces, is an attempt to construct the universe and explain its contents by means of as few axioms as possible. The result is a brilliant, bizarre, and surreal cosmos the product of the rational thinking of a creator god and his astral assistants, and of purely mechanistic causes based on the behaviour of the four elements.